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150K Trans Kids In U.S. Schools Experience Discrimination & Harassment

Read our guide on Talking About Transgender Students & School Facilities Access: http://lgbtmap.org/talking-about-transgender-students-school-facilities-access

Learn more about school environments for LGBT youth: http://lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/safe_school_laws

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Movement Advancement Project | Talking About Transgender Students & School Facilities Access

This guide provides high-level messaging to help build support for policies and laws that protect transgender students and their ability to access school facilities that match their gender identity.

Now’s the time to #StandWithGavin! Check out our guide on Talking About #Transgender Students & School Facilities Access.

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Infographic: 150K Trans Kids in U.S. Schools Experience Discrimination & Harassment

This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case about a transgender student’s ability to attend school. While this case is about one student’s access to facilities that match his gender identity, many of the estimated 150,000 transgender youth in America’s schools report harassment, bullying, and discrimination. All students deserve to be safe at school, and that includes being able to use facilities that match their gender identity.

Please share our new infographic! #StandwithGavin

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Gavin Grimm: Meet the boy Laverne Cox shouted out at Grammys

Gavin Grimm is a transgender teen whose fight for equality at his Virginia high school is taking him all the way to the Supreme Court.

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You might’ve watched the Grammys this past weekend, where Laverne Cox told you to google “Gavin Grimm.”

Many obeyed, the hashtag #StandWithGavin rising to the top of the trending lists as his story began to circulate among popular consciousness.

Gavin is a transgender high school student in the state of Virginia who has had to attend board meetings filled with adults discussing his ability to utilize the school bathroom, many of whom reportedly cheered after hearing vulgar statements made about the teenager.

When the school board voted that he would not be able to use the boys bathroom, Gavin decided to sue.

He says: “I am fighting this fight because no kid should have to think so hard about performing a basic and private function of being alive. No kid struggling to be accepted, and struggling to accept themselves, should have to simultaneously battle for the right to use the correct bathroom. That is why I have come to this point. I hope that I will be one of the last kids that has to go through something like this, and I am going to do what I can to ensure that.”

Represented by the ACLU, Gavin will be headed to the Supreme Court, where the verdict will impact transgender individuals more broadly than bathroom rights – but to protections on the basis of sex interpreted to included gender identity. It will be the first time the Supreme Court will consider the question of whether transgender people are protected from discrimination.

Gavin’s case will extend beyond his final year of high school, but will determine if his name will be studied by students of history in the years to come, as a champion and defender of the trans community.

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New report: 37 states fail to fully support #trans youth in schools, child welfare, and mental health 

http://www.lgbtmap.org/mapping-trans-equality via @lgbtmap